Afghanistan: Kamala Harris dodges questions on whether the Biden administration made mistakes

Afghanistan: Kamala Harris dodges questions on whether the Biden administration made mistakes

Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday during a visit to Singapore dodged question on whether her administration had made mistakes in its Afghanistan withdrawal, insisting they were focused on evacuation efforts and noting there would be plenty of time later on to analyze mistakes the US government made. And as she boarded the plane to…

US State Department Reportedly Sustained Cyber Incident

US State Department Reportedly Sustained Cyber Incident

Governance & Risk Management , Incident & Breach Response , IT Risk Management Department Recently Received a ‘D’ Grade for Its Cybersecurity Defenses Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • August 23, 2021     Secretary of State Antony Blinken briefing reporters earlier this month (Source: State Department) The U.S. State Department reportedly recently sustained a cyber incident…

CISA Warns Organizations of ProxyShell Attacks on Exchange Servers

CISA Warns Organizations of ProxyShell Attacks on Exchange Servers

CISA Warns Organizations of ProxyShell Attacks on Exchange Servers | IT Security News 23. August 2021 This article has been indexed from SecurityWeek RSS Feed The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) over the weekend issued an alert to warn of malicious actors actively exploiting the recently disclosed Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities named ProxyShell. read…

US State Department Reportedly Sustained Cyber Incident

US State Department Reportedly Sustained Cyber Incident

Governance & Risk Management , Incident & Breach Response , IT Risk Management Department Recently Received a ‘D’ Grade for Its Cybersecurity Defenses Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • August 23, 2021     Secretary of State Antony Blinken briefing reporters earlier this month (Source: State Department) The U.S. State Department reportedly recently sustained a cyber incident…

Afghanistan: British soldiers facing ‘extraordinary circumstances’

Afghanistan: British soldiers facing ‘extraordinary circumstances’

Armed forces minister James Heappey has said that British soldiers in Afghanistan are facing “extraordinary circumstances” at Kabul airport. UK troops were deployed to Kabul airport to aid the evacuation of people from the country, following the Taliban’s total takeover of Afghanistan. Mr Heappey told the BBC that while soldiers are helping with the evacuation,…

ShadowPad Malware is Becoming a Favorite Choice of Chinese Espionage Groups

ShadowPad Malware is Becoming a Favorite Choice of Chinese Espionage Groups

ShadowPad, an infamous Windows backdoor that allows attackers to download further malicious modules or steal data, has been put to use by five different Chinese threat clusters since 2017. “The adoption of ShadowPad significantly reduces the costs of development and maintenance for threat actors,” SentinelOne researchers Yi-Jhen Hsieh and Joey Chen said in a detailed…

Afghanistan: Foreign troops extension ‘a clear violation’ – Taliban

Afghanistan: Foreign troops extension ‘a clear violation’ – Taliban

The Taliban say they will not extend the deadline for Western forces to leave Afghanistan. A spokesman, Suhail Shaheen, told the BBC’s Yalda Hakim that the 31 August was a red line and that any extension would be a “clear violation” of the Doha agreement between the United States and the Taliban. He said that…